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The ART library
Everything a person considering Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) tends to ask, answered in plain English by a clinician who uses it, including where the evidence is still thin. Nothing here asks for your email address.
How this library is written
No success rates and no promised session counts. ART’s research is promising and still small, and every page says so where it matters. Where another treatment has the stronger evidence for a problem, the page tells you that too.
Education, not a diagnosis. Whether ART suits you is a clinical judgement made after an assessment, not something a web page can decide.
How ART works
The session step by step, image replacement, memory, session counts and who ART is not for.
Open this section- What happens in an ART session, step by step
- Voluntary Image Replacement: the step that makes ART different
- Will I forget what happened? What ART changes about a memory
- Can you do ART without talking about the trauma?
- How many sessions of ART does it take?
- Your first ART appointment: how to prepare and what to expect
- Who ART is not for, and when “not yet” is the right answer
- The history of Accelerated Resolution Therapy
The research
Every published study, what the treatment guidelines say, and where the evidence is thin.
Open this sectionART compared
Side by side with EMDR, CPT, prolonged exposure, Brainspotting, hypnotherapy and talk therapy.
Open this section- Trauma therapies compared: ART, EMDR, CPT, PE and more, side by side
- ART vs prolonged exposure (PE): how they differ, and which has the stronger evidence
- ART vs cognitive processing therapy (CPT): images versus beliefs
- ART vs Brainspotting: two eye-based trauma therapies compared
- ART vs hypnotherapy: is ART a form of hypnosis?
- ART vs talk therapy: different jobs, and when each fits
- Accelerated Resolution Therapy vs EMDR: how are they actually different?
What ART is used for
Combat trauma, first responders, assault, grief, phobias, nightmares and more, with the evidence for each.
Open this section- ART for combat trauma and military PTSD
- ART for first responders: police, fire, EMS and dispatch
- ART after sexual assault
- ART for adults with childhood trauma
- ART for grief and traumatic loss
- ART for phobias: what to know first
- ART for trauma nightmares and sleep: what is known and what is not
- Moral injury and ART: what it might help with, and what it cannot
- Birth trauma and ART: after a frightening childbirth
- After a car crash: ART, driving fear and what has the best evidence
- ART after narcissistic abuse or coercive control
Finding and paying for ART
Insurance, TRICARE and veterans, online ART, credentials and what to ask a provider.
Open this section- Does insurance cover ART?
- ART for veterans and military families: TRICARE, the VA and what to check
- Can ART be done online?
- ART training and credentials: what they mean and how to check a therapist
- Questions to ask an ART therapist before you start
- Best Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) providers in San Antonio
Tools and printables
A glossary, a before-and-after session sheet, and an explainer for family.
Open this sectionWondering whether ART would suit you?
Reading only gets you so far. Tell Jim roughly what is going on and he will tell you honestly whether ART is the right place to start.